Web surfers will no longer be reliving the magic moments of the 2007 Oscars via YouTube. The vid-viewing site complied with a Tuesday request from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences to remove all unauthorized clips, Variety stated yesterday.

I just relived the not-so-magic of Ellen DeGeneres’ opening monologue, though.

Ric Robertson, Administrator, Academy of Motion Pictures Arts & Sciences, said the organization had its content pulled "to help manage the value of our telecast and our (Oscars) brand."

Really? Oscars footage abounds on YouTube.

Both Google and copyright holders continue to play the YouTube video game.

In “Google’s fuzzy YouTube logic” last November, I rebuked one of the first public statements released from the Google owned YouTube, an amalgam of YouTuber viewing stats on CBS owned content headlined “After one month, CBS content among most viewed videos on YouTube, Nearly 30 Million Views Since Partnership Began Oct. 18.”

I said of the YouTube-CBS purported love fest at the time:

Google, YouTube and CBS are currently hanging their video hats on warm and fuzzy “beliefs,” not on hard, trackable conversion metrics. Believing that YouTube “works” brings to mind the “old school” advertising maxim: "I know that half my advertising works - I just don't know which half."”

Google will need to show content owners harder ROI metrics than “beliefs” in order to maximize its own ROI on the $1.65 billion YouTube.

My analysis of Google’s YouTube stance with CBS last November was reinforced by Wall Street Journal reports last week of tension between CBS-Google-YouTube: “CBS talks go off track.”